LotusExige
Bluelighter
All,
Long time chronic pain patient who about 2 months ago went through an in-patient detox program to break my physical dependence. It was a tough 5 days but I survived and went about 3 weeks opiate free. Unfortunately my pain came raging back forcing me to go back to taking the hydromorphone again. I started as small as possible but got back up to about 40mg daily IV. Right now I have about 80mg left to use as a taper over the next X days. While I am still in pain I can't get my script refilled for another 10 days so I'm going to have to taper myself back off. That ways always the goal anyway, to be able to take when I needed but then to taper off when I have to.
I'm already stocked up on white grapefruit juice, loperamide (immodium) and am going to stop by my source for kratom extract as that's seemed to help me in the past. Also have some of Colorado's finest weed and some vitamin I/Aleve for general aches/pains. I'm hoping that if I go to a very slow taper down over that time I can minimize the worst of the WDs as I just started a new job and really can't afford to miss a bunch of days the third week I work here.
What other advice do you guys have? Am I screwed either way or can I realistically expect to make it through this without too much hurt. All input is welcome as I have to figure this out one way or another if I want to be able to use these medicines when I really do need them.
Thanks
Long time chronic pain patient who about 2 months ago went through an in-patient detox program to break my physical dependence. It was a tough 5 days but I survived and went about 3 weeks opiate free. Unfortunately my pain came raging back forcing me to go back to taking the hydromorphone again. I started as small as possible but got back up to about 40mg daily IV. Right now I have about 80mg left to use as a taper over the next X days. While I am still in pain I can't get my script refilled for another 10 days so I'm going to have to taper myself back off. That ways always the goal anyway, to be able to take when I needed but then to taper off when I have to.
I'm already stocked up on white grapefruit juice, loperamide (immodium) and am going to stop by my source for kratom extract as that's seemed to help me in the past. Also have some of Colorado's finest weed and some vitamin I/Aleve for general aches/pains. I'm hoping that if I go to a very slow taper down over that time I can minimize the worst of the WDs as I just started a new job and really can't afford to miss a bunch of days the third week I work here.
What other advice do you guys have? Am I screwed either way or can I realistically expect to make it through this without too much hurt. All input is welcome as I have to figure this out one way or another if I want to be able to use these medicines when I really do need them.
Thanks